1.   Hailstones as big as Marbles flattened the crops.

2.   The wind and rain had flattened the crops.

3.   The tin roofs of houses had been ripped off and scattered about, trees and crops were flattened.

4.   In Malawi, a sliver of a country bordering Mozambique, storms have blown off roofs, downed power lines and trees and flattened crops.